EU regulatory register · eIDAS 2.0
Article 5aEuropean Digital Identity Wallets
CELEX 32014R0910 · Read on 2026-08-26
Short answer
independently of a Member State but recognised by that Member State.
Verbatim from the article. Source: NovaCopilot · https://legal.exploreworldai.com/eu/rattsakter/eidas-910-2014/artikel-5a · Short answer as data · Official text
eIDAS, electronic identification and EU wallet in short
Every member state must offer an EU Digital Identity Wallet, certain companies must accept it, and a qualified e-signature equals a handwritten one.
- Must we accept the EU wallet?
- Is an e-signature equal to a handwritten one?
- What does Article 5f require?
Source: NovaCopilot
Official text
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directly by a Member State;
under a mandate from a Member State;
independently of a Member State but recognised by that Member State.
securely request, obtain, select, combine, store, delete, share and present, under the sole control of the user, person identification data and, where applicable, in combination with electronic attestations of attributes, to authenticate to relying parties online and, where appropriate, in offline mode, in order to access public and private services, while ensuring that selective disclosure of data is possible;
generate pseudonyms and store them encrypted and locally within the European Digital Identity Wallet;
securely authenticate another person’s European Digital Identity Wallet, and receive and share person identification data and electronic attestations of attributes in a secured way between the two European Digital Identity Wallets;
access a log of all transactions carried out through the European Digital Identity Wallet via a common dashboard enabling the user to:
view an up-to-date list of relying parties with which the user has established a connection and, where applicable, all data exchanged;
easily request the erasure by a relying party of personal data pursuant to Article 17 of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679;
easily report a relying party to the competent national data protection authority, where an allegedly unlawful or suspicious request for data is received;
sign by means of qualified electronic signatures or seal by means of qualified electronic seals;
download, to the extent technically feasible, the user’s data, electronic attestation of attributes and configurations;
exercise the user’s rights to data portability.
support common protocols and interfaces:
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Follow-up questions
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